Education

Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing, China, Foreign Student, 2006

B.B.E.E., Biomedical Engineering with emphasis in Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota—Institute of Technology, 2003

Clerkships

Mr. Blonigan externed at the United States Patent & Trademark Office’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in 2007 (soon to be the “Patent Trial & Appeal Board” or “PTAB”).

Admissions

California

Supreme Court of California

United States Patent & Trademark Office

United States District Court for the Central District of California

United States District Court for the Northern District of California

United States District Court for the Southern District of California

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Overview

Experience

Publications & News

Memberships

Mr. Blonigan is an associate in the Intellectual Property (IP) Practice Group in the firm’s Del Mar office.

Areas of Practice

Mr. Blonigan has been vigorously protecting and defending his clients’ intellectual property rights in federal district courts and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit since 2007. He has specialized in patent law since 2004, when he studied nights and weekends to pass the patent bar exam while working as an engineer for a start-up medical-device company developing electrical, software, and biochemical solutions for diabetes patients. His practical experience developing products and deep knowledge of intellectual property law help him creatively, efficiently, and favorably resolve his clients' disputes through licensing, mediation, or trial.

Mr. Blonigan has litigated patent, copyright, trademark, trade dress, and trade secret disputes in California state court as well as federal district courts in California, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas. He has also helped clients build and maintain patent portfolios and obtain trademark rights from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In law school, he worked as an extern law clerk to several USPTO Administrative Patent Judges in Washington D.C., assisting with interferences and appeals in the electrical, chemical, and mechanical arts.

Mr. Blonigan is also involved in his community as both a legal advisor and business owner, giving his law practice a compassionate, unique, and practical business perspective. He provides pro bono legal services to indigent clients in San Diego and Orange County who need help resolving immigration and intellectual property matters.

Road Under Construction: Administrative Claim Interpretations and a Path of Greater Deference from the Federal Circuit to the Patent Office, 35 American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal 415 (2007)